Bob Jimenez at El Latino Weekly has reviewed Stephen's upcoming horror movie Beneath The Darkness. Keep reading if you want to know how the movie is. Ask most people and they'll tell you that dying in a plane crash is the most frightening death they can imagine. Director Martin Guigui laughs, looks us all in the eye and says, "Want to bet?" Guigui is a director (My Ex-girlfriend's Wedding) who usually makes us laugh. But in "Beneath the Darkness," he explores the psychotic world of a small town mortician who enjoys burying people alive. In Bruce Wilkinson's screen play, the victim is thrown in a coffin screaming for mercy. There is none. Well, almost none. "Want company," the mortician asks with a grin? He throws a flashlight into the coffin and slams it shut!

Guigui has apparently been studying terror movies that work. "What ever happened to Baby Jane?" "Kill Bill 2" and certainly, "Psycho!" There's a touch of all three thrown in with a little "Nancy Drew." But there's freshness in the way Guigui pieces together a story that keeps us guessing and sensing that we're going to see something even worse. Guigui is also market conscious. The movie is a perfect summer-recession distraction aimed principally at an audience sure to come back to be scared again and again; teenagers. The hero of the movie is one of their own; rebellious, distracted and a loner, yet brave enough to confront and expose the evil in his town.

It just happens to be Eli, the mortician, a psychopath monster. Veteran actor Dennis Quaid plays the douchebag, asshole, nut-ball with perfection. According to executive producer as Doc Holliday in "Tombstone" In any event, Quaid is so menacing, (watch his eyes and twitching mouth) that he only has to raise his hand and you expect to see an axe in it. In fact, Quaid is so wacky that one isn't sure whether Guigui is satirizing horror movies or just letting Quaid have fun.
Travis (Tony Oller) is our teenage geek hero. He is tormented by the memory of helplessly standing by and watching his younger sister die. That gives him a sort of "I don't give a shit attitude," especially about school and the track team. But he becomes curious about seeing two eerie silhouettes dancing in Eli's upper floor bedroom. He should have minded his own business.

Abby (Aimee Teegarden) is Travis's perky but nosey girl friend who goads Travis into taking a closer look. The plot would work well enough without her sexy teasing, but Travis has to find his groove somehow and lets Abby talk him into breaking into Eli's house--at night. Not a very good idea. Soon both find themselves at the mercy of Eli who plans to bury both of them. Bravo to Geoff Zanelli for his nail biting musical score. It faithfully accompanies every emotion of fear and terror the audience feels or is it the music and not the scene?

I must warn you. The opening scene of "Beneath the Darkness" is so terrifying and so disturbing that you'll want to get up and walk out. I mean, who need this? But you'll be glad you stayed, to let director Martin Guigui take you to the edge time and time again. And you never know? You might meet a new friend, the guy or gal you've been grabbing next to you. In Beneath the Darkness, Ely Vaughn (Quaid) is a pillar of the community in tiny Smithville, Texas. The town's mortician, Ely has been revered since his days as the high school's star quarterback. But since the tragic death of his wife two years earlier, Ely has withdrawn from his neighbors, while local teens spread stories of supernatural goings on at Ely's mansion--which is also the funeral home. When high school friends Travis (Oller), Abby (Teegarden), Brian (Lunsford) and Danny (Werkheiser) decide to check out the rumors, they are shocked to see the supposedly grieving widower dancing with a mysterious woman behind the curtains of his bedroom window. Their curiosity aroused, the four teens wait for Ely to leave the house before breaking in to investigate. But instead of finding clues to the woman's identity, they stumble on a grotesque, long-hidden secret. The sadistic mortician next door will now stop at nothing to literally bury his past.

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